Facebook Post Recycles Misleading Assessment of Vulnerable and Endangered Species
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Climate change and other human-caused factors continue to put many species at risk, according to conservation groups. But a social media post misleadingly claims polar bears, whales and koala populations are “recovered” or increasing. All three species remain “critically endangered” or “vulnerable,” the International Union for Conservation of Nature says.
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Humans are accelerating the extinction rate of other species through activities that interfere with their habitats and contribute to climate change, according to the Royal Society, the independent scientific academy of the U.K.
“The main direct causes of extinction are loss and degradation of habitats due to human use of land and sea; overexploitation of wild populations; and the impacts on populations and ecological communities of invasive alien species, pollution, and climate change,” the organization says.
These human activities continue to endanger vulnerable species such as whales and polar
